Monthly Archives: March 2001
Factory Incentive
Clarence Bastarache thought it would take him four weeks to choose an application service provider to run the SAP financial software he needed. It...
Internet Spending Largely Unchanged
Despite the abrupt economic downturn and the hammering that technology stocks are taking, many executives in charge of Internet commerce initiatives said they have...
Mining Patent Properties for Gold
Like heirloom hunters crawling through the family attic, businesses are turning to new technologies to help blow the dust off the relics in their...
Make Lemonade
Laid-off dot-comers should take a lesson from some folks who recently lost their jobs with Nortel Networks. The techies put their collective minds together...
Operator No. 9: March 19, 2001
Busy BallmerThat Steve Ballmer sure gets around. Last Monday morning, Microsofts chief executive was on a conference call with eBays Meg Whitman to announce...
Loudcloud Strives to Expand
Amid widespread criticism that its business model is too narrow to succeed— and in the wake of a lukewarm initial public stock offering— Loudcloud...
Bulking Up E-Biz Platform
Infrastructure has never been one of the more compelling components of an e-business system, but IBM, Genuity Inc. and Firstsource Corp. are taking stabs...
Robert Bowman
Robert Bowman has gone from PCs to the Padres. Last fall, he left as president and chief executive of electronics e-tailer Outpost.com to head...
Northpoints Assets on the Block
A sad chapter in the history of Digital Subscriber Line service will close this week, when the assets of NorthPoint Communications hit the auction...
ICANN Wrestles With VeriSign Deal
Melbourne, Australia - the Internets domain-name management body spent a good part of its quarterly meeting here grappling over the terms of its agreement...